The Mahabharata

The Mahabharata (1990)

TMDb

6.9

24/01/1990 • 5h 18m
original-title

The Mahabharata

status

Released

production-companies

MP Productions

Channel 4 Television

The Brooklyn Academy of Music

original-language

English

budget

-

revenue

-

One of the great masterpieces of world literature comes to vivid life in an elaborate production from acclaimed theater and film innovator Peter Brook. This collection of ancient Sanskrit stories (composed into the longest book ever written) comprises a series of enlightened fables at the heart of countless beliefs, legends, and teachings; indeed, its very title means "the great story of mankind." Brook and writer Jean-Claude Carriere worked for eight years to develop this epic concerning two sides of a royal family, the Pandavas and the Kauravas, whose struggle leads to a fascinating voyage of emotions, passion and vision of glory. Briefly, the Mahabharata is a tale of two rival sets of brothers, cousins to eachother, each born into royalty and with divinely guided paths in life. The result, however, is a great war, death, destruction - a vast epic.

director
production-countries

Australia

Belgium

Denmark

Finland

France

Iceland

Ireland

Japan

Luxembourg

Netherlands

Norway

Portugal

Sweden

United Kingdom

United States of America

spoken-languages

Hungarian

English

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